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The Best Deal In Gaming Keeps Getting Worse
10.7.2024
Xbox Game Pass started out feeling like a frivolous boondoggle aimed at distracting from the Xbox One’s lack of hit exclusives. Then, it became the best deal in gaming thanks to a steady expansion of the Netflix-like subscription library with major third-party releases and critically acclaimed...
July 4th Gaming Deals That Would Make The Founders Proud
3.7.2024
The 4th of July is a day for jingoistic mythmaking and summer merriment. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate it than by grilling food, watching things explode, and ordering a bunch of cool stuff online that you totally don’t need but will still be really awesome to have. Read more
I Spent A Weekend With Remote Play And Cloud Gaming And It Was Kind Of Awesome
2.7.2024
I used to consider myself a certifiable cloud hater. I’ve never enjoyed my experiences trying to engage with cloud gaming, which allows players to stream their console games to PCs, smartphones, and dedicated handhelds, as well as adjacent remote play technology. In my limited experience, it...
Nintendo Says It Has A Plan To Prevent Scalping: Just Make Loads Of Switch 2s
1.7.2024
A few years on, it’s oddly hard to remember how difficult it was to get hold of the most recent generation of games consoles. On their release in November 2020, both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X were incredibly scarce, thanks to an imperfect storm of covid, global chip shortages, and supply...
Steam Deck Now Cheaper Than A Switch During Valve's Big Summer Sale
24.6.2024
Valve’s popular portable PC, the Steam Deck, is currently on sale ahead of the company’s upcoming Steam Summer Sale. You can currently buy the powerful gaming device for less than a Standard Switch or Switch OLED. Read more
The Nintendo Switch Is Going Out With A Bang, Not A Whimper
18.6.2024
It’s funny that one day ago, just before Nintendo’s June Direct, we had almost no idea what the next six months would look like for the Switch. Nintendo has confirmed it will have news on its next console in the coming months, and that means the Switch is in its twilight year. But after a 40-minute...
The PlayStation Portal Just Got Better Thanks To A Surprise Update
18.6.2024
The PlayStation Portal is Sony’s surprisingly great Remote Play handheld for the PlayStation 5, and it’s about to get even better thanks to some new features arriving by way of the latest firmware update. Read more
Woman Caught Smuggling 350 Nintendo Switch Games In Her Bra
14.6.2024
A nervous woman with a large bust size was stopped at an airport in China after officials grew suspicious. They inspected her and discovered she was allegedly trying to smuggle 350 Nintendo Switch carts out of the country by stuffing them into her bra. Read more
Monster Hunter Rise Headlines A Varied Month Of PlayStation Plus Games
13.6.2024
PlayStation has announced the new rotation of games coming to PlayStation Plus on June 18, and there are some standouts. Strategy fans have a lot to look forward to with the addition of Anno 1880 and Crusader Kings III, and Far Cry 4 is always a fun time for fans of the Ubisoft open-world...
This Was The Best Xbox Showcase In Years (And The Hardest To Root For)
10.6.2024
A Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign that looks like Mission: Impossible by way of an Adam Curtis documentary, a Gearsof War prequel that shows fans E-Day and the birth of the series’ iconic “Lancer” chainsaw gun, and a trailer that showed Perfect Dark isn’t just still alive, it’s potentially...
This Blumhouse Game Is Like Playing Through A ’90s Horror Movie
9.6.2024
Fear The Spotlight is vibey as hell from the outset, like plunging into a wormhole that sends you straight onto the set of the ‘90s cult horror classic The Craft. Grainy, VHS-esque visuals, narrative-driven gameplay, and simplistic puzzles are reminiscent of early PlayStation horror titles...
Riot’s Hero Shooter Valorant Is Finally Coming To Consoles
8.6.2024
Riot Games, the company best known for MOBA League of Legends, is bringing its free-to-play 5v5 hero shooter Valorant to consoles after four years of PC exclusivity. The game melds elements of hero shooters like Overwatch and tactical shooters like Counter-Strike, and it has a robust esports...
Report: Original Halo Is Getting Another Remaster And It Could Come To PS5
6.6.2024
There are big questions ahead of Microsoft’s summer Xbox showcase, including which games might also come to PlayStation 5 now as part of a new multiplatform strategy, and what the Xbox Series X/S and their successors look like without as many exclusives. New reporting at The Verge offers a few more...
Everything We Saw At PlayStation's May 2024 State Of Play
31.5.2024
On May 30, 2024, Sony treated PlayStation fans to a brief-yet-packed showing of some games it has around the corner. Some of these titles are expected to arrive this year on PS5 (as well as PC), while a few others are likely to arrive next year.Read more
Our First Look At Concord, PlayStation's Guardians Of The Galaxy-Infused Hero Shooter
31.5.2024
Sony finally pulled back the curtain to reveal what Concord is actually about. It’s giving Guardians of the Galaxy vibes mixed with a traditional competitive shooter. The PvP FPS was first teased a year ago and will be coming to PlayStation 5 and PC later this year on August 23. Read more
Someone Dumped $400,000 Worth Of Stolen Playdate Gaming Handhelds At A Random Restaurant
31.5.2024
Earlier this year, Panic, the company behind the whimsical Playdate gaming handheld, revealed that a shipment containing more than a thousand of the devices had been stolen. Several months and a lot of sleuthing later, the rogue shipments have been discovered after seemingly being dumped on...
Great Combat Makes Wuthering Waves A Promising Alternative To Genshin Impact
29.5.2024
There’s nothing definitively wrong with being an iterative clone of something else people already love. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and all that. So I don’t really mind that on the surface, the new gacha open-world RPG Wuthering Waves looks to be a flattering copy of HoYoverse’s...
Microsoft Accidentally Confirms COD Black Ops 6 For Game Pass
28.5.2024
Anyone paying attention would already have guessed that the recently announced Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 would be coming to Game Pass on release. However, this has never been officially confirmed by Microsoft, owners of both Xbox and CoD publishers Activision, until today, by accident.Read more
These New Retro Gaming Handhelds Look Fantastic
20.5.2024
As the handheld gaming market continues to blow-up, high-end PC gamers aren’t the only ones swimming in options. Retro enthusiasts also have a bigger selection of sleek emulation machines to choose from, including a handful of new devices with impressive specs and beautiful designs. Read more
Red Dead Redemption 2 Dares You To Finish It Now That It's Back On PS Plus
15.5.2024
The selection of games rotating into PS Plus at the end of May isn’t that impressive, save for one: Red Dead Redemption 2. Rockstar Games’ open-world Western returns to the subscription service after a nearly two-year hiatus. Will you beat it this time?Read more